Abstract
Reconciliation is possible through finding the reason of the rupture. The relationship between humans and nature, between the constructed and the natural environment, evolved into a complex system, resulting into a loss of significance on the side of nature. High altitude architecture is an isolated phenomenon that can be used as a case study for the research on the human detachment from nature. Its rather short history concentrates and summarizes, on a brief period of time, the evolution of the built space in natural environments. From an initial primitive approach, that produced architecture and behaviors in a very strong and exclusive connection to nature, high altitude architecture evolved in parallel with the cultural movements and mutated into a hi-tech commercial product. At this contemporary stage, the relation between humans and nature has been fundamentally changed, in the sense of a complete detachment from nature. Architectural objects gained autarchy. The reality of external environments that include discomfort and hazard disappeared as a possible occurrence in human life. Analogically, this estrangement can be identified in contemporary built environments that completely isolate humans from the reality of nature and disable the possibility of any real direct interaction. Once the connection lost, the behavior towards nature mutates. The question is if these mutations are reversible and if, at least partially, the connections between humans and nature could be re-established.
Presenters
Ana Maria MachedonAssociate Professor, Synthesis of Architectural Design, University of Architecture and Urbanism "Ion Mincu", Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2023 Special Focus—Human/Nature: Toward A Reconciliation
KEYWORDS
High Altitude Architecture, Autarchy, Detachment, Mutations, Connections
